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authorPierre Labastie <pieere@linuxfromscratch.org>2020-06-18 10:00:48 +0000
committerPierre Labastie <pieere@linuxfromscratch.org>2020-06-18 10:00:48 +0000
commitc3471cf4631eadcf3596f010305b079e61578356 (patch)
tree0931029e35a80a983c8bc42fe5db77ad17e411d6 /part3intro/toolchaintechnotes.xml
parent80f8c024375dff45a2ddb3f7c9b49c9fc3c03ec4 (diff)
Fix several typos in toolchaintechnotes
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11955 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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@@ -65,10 +65,11 @@
</variablelist>
- <para>As an example, let us imagine the following scenario: we may have a
+ <para>As an example, let us imagine the following scenario (sometimes
+ referred to as <quote>Canadian Cross</quote>): we may have a
compiler on a slow machine only, let's call the machine A, and the compiler
ccA. We may have also a fast machine (B), but with no compiler, and we may
- want to produce code for a another slow machine (C). Then, to build a
+ want to produce code for another slow machine (C). To build a
compiler for machine C, we would have three stages:</para>
<informaltable align="center">
@@ -88,7 +89,7 @@
<entry>build cross-compiler cc1 using ccA on machine A</entry>
</row>
<row>
- <entry>2</entry><entry>A</entry><entry>B</entry><entry>B</entry>
+ <entry>2</entry><entry>A</entry><entry>B</entry><entry>C</entry>
<entry>build cross-compiler cc2 using cc1 on machine A</entry>
</row>
<row>
@@ -215,9 +216,9 @@
instructions not available in the assembler instruction set. This
internal library is named libgcc, and must be linked to the glibc
library to be fully functional! Furthermore, the standard library for
- C++ (libstdc++) also needs being linked to glibc. The solution
- to this chicken and egg problem is to first build a degraded cc1 based libgcc,
- lacking some fuctionalities such as threads and exception handling, then
+ C++ (libstdc++) also needs being linked to glibc. The solution to this
+ chicken and egg problem is to first build a degraded cc1 based libgcc,
+ lacking some functionalities such as threads and exception handling, then
build glibc using this degraded compiler (glibc itself is not
degraded), then build libstdc++. But this last library will lack the
same functionalities as libgcc.</para>